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Devil's Disciple (1959) [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

The Killers [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner

Universal Studios, 1998

This 1946 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story adds well over an hour of new material to the original tale. The reason is, while director Robert Siodmak, star Burt Lancaster, and an outstanding supporting cast are faithful to Hemingway's work, his story only takes up about 15 minutes of screen time. Burt Lancaster plays the doomed man sought by hired guns in a small town. Hemingway's bruisingly concise dialogue makes an early sequence ...

Elmer Gantry [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

Brothers and sisters, can we get a witness for this woeful tale of saints and sinners? Burt Lancaster earned his only Oscar as the wide-smiling, glad-handing, soul-saving charlatan Elmer Gantry, a salesman who turns his gift for preaching into a career at the pulpit. Climbing on board the barnstorming evangelical tour of revivalist Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), a true believer in the Aimee Semple McPherson mold, Gantry declaims, ...

The List of Adrian Messenger [VHS]
George C. Scott, Kirk Douglas

Universal Studios, 1994

John Huston was eager for a lightweight lark, and The List of Adrian Messenger was just the project he needed. Philip MacDonald's upper-crust British murder mystery allowed Huston to work close to his Irish estate, including fox hunting and quail shooting well suited to Huston's lord-of-the-manor lifestyle. The mystery itself is clever enough: As a former MI-5 agent, George C. Scott is lured into the case when writer Adrian Messenger (John ...

The Train [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield

Mgm Entertainment, 1992

This tense, 1964 action drama from John Frankenheimer ( The Manchurian Candidate ) stars Burt Lancaster as a member of the French Resistance trying to prevent Nazi looters from taking valuable art treasures out of the country. A great ride all the way, with Frankenheimer at his inimitable best. This is a true, human-scale action movie of the sort we used to think of before "action" meant blowing up asteroids in space. Kinetic but almost rueful ...

Seven Days in May (B&W) [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas

Warner Home Video, 1997

John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the cold war with a bold nuclear disarmament plan. Lancaster's longtime friend and frequent costar Kirk Douglas is his smiling, joking right-hand man, Colonel "Jiggs" ...

Executive Action [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan

Warner Home Video, 1995

Predecessor to Oliver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about ...

Separate But Equal [VHS]
Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster

Republic Pictures, 1996

One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal . In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues, never taking its "eyes off the prize" while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision. It was the culmination ...

Tough Guys [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas

Buena Vista Home Video, 1988

Airport [VHS]
Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin

Good Times Home Video, 1998

One of the first of the big disaster films, this stodgy Hollywood product lumbers and creaks as it tries to sort out the various plot threads of Arthur Hailey's doorstop of a novel. Set at (what else?) a busy metropolitan airport, it details what happens one eventful night when, among other things, a huge blizzard threatens to disrupt air traffic for the airport manager (Burt Lancaster) even as a suicidal bomber (Van Heflin) heads into the air ...

Rainmaker (1956) [VHS]

22 reviews
Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn

Paramount, 1998

"He's a Dream"
Katherine Hepburn really plays it up as an old maid trying to repel the the jesting, jabbing, goading of her male family members in an effort to get her to find a man and marry. A part of her is content to remain the way she is--that is until she tastes the magic of the Rainmaker, played by Burt Lancaster. His very presence on the scene awakens pent up longings. Burt is perfect in his part, ...

Victory at Entebbe [VHS]

10 reviews
Helmut Berger, Theodore Bikel

Warner Home Video, 1995

Great Linda Blair movie!!
Linda Blair is the best in this movie! Besides that cute guy who plays her boyfriend she is the best in the cast! She was soo cute looking the only problem is she looked to much (and acted to much) like Regan Macniel the character he did a year later in the heretic! But thats ok! Even though when she was crying she sounded like a smurf (i'm sorry.. she did! :) ) Elizabeth Taylor is a little bit ...

Run Silent Run Deep [VHS]

70 reviews
Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster

MGM (Video & DVD), 1996

One of the Best
I first saw Run Silent Run Deep at the local movie theater in 1959 with my father and older brother. To watch it again brings back all the nostalgia of the 50s but it also makes me appreciate the ability of two fine actors and how limited special effects in black and white can be so convincing. When I first viewed it as a youngster I was more interested in the action sequences. Today when I watch ...

Vera Cruz [VHS]

37 reviews
Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster

MGM (Video & DVD), 1997

Vera Cruz
A great movie/western. Gary Cooper is great as always but I have to say this movie had to have been written for Burt Lancaster. It's the first time I can say he fit his part to a tee and did a really good job at acting. They made a great pairing of the two for this movie. A total enjoyment and a "must add" to your movie collection.

Valdez Is Coming [VHS]

35 reviews
Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

" ... AND WE HAVE LOST 5 MORE MEN ..."
"He can shoot ... and he knows when to move" (the segundo) Seeing this movie for the first time on the old TNT Western Theatre back in the early 1990s, don't know why I waited this long to enter a review. Also, I know nothing of altered or cut scenes from this movie, the Sharps rifle shoot has always been in whatever version I have viewed. Former frontier sheriff, Roberto Valdez is an ...

The Unforgiven [VHS]

30 reviews
Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn

MGM (Video & DVD), 2000

Movie
Received order very quickly. Love this movie, watched it as soon as I received it.

Judgment at Nuremberg [VHS]

100 reviews
Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster

MGM (Video & DVD), 1997

More Relevent Than Ever
This movie was acclaimed when it was released in 1961 but it's theme is as relevent now as then. In the movie, several German judges were put on trial for preverting the law for the advancement of the goals of the Nazi regime. What made these men both more tragic and more evil than many of the other Nazis is the fact that they should have known better. They were highly intelligent men who used ...

The Crimson Pirate [VHS]

35 reviews
Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat

Warner Home Video, 1993

CRIMSON PIRATE
GREAT FUN. SEE WHAT A REAL MOVIE STAR WAS IN THE DAY. BURT LANCASTER, WITH THAT FLASHY SMILE AND GREAT TEETH, DOES HIS OWN STUNTS FROM THE VERY FIRST SCENE WITH HIS OLD BUDDIE AND CIRCUS PARTNER FROM HIS EARLY YEARS, NICK CRAVAT. THIS IS ENTERETAINMENT !!

Lawman [VHS]

33 reviews
Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan

Mgm Entertainment, 1993

You buy the man above him
A wonderful, thinking man's, neo-traditional Western. Burt excels as the lawdog made of granite. He doesn't bend, he doesn't trade. He wavers for a brief moment, but the inexorable workings of the patterns of his life pull him back into line. The flickers that pass over his tired face are a masterful demonstration of cinema acting. Beautiful, intricate script to chew on. It's stuffed with strong ...

Trapeze [VHS]

16 reviews
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

It's a Widescreen copy.
For those a little leery of ordering this copy, rest assured it is in its original widescreen aspect ratio of 2.35. The quality is identical to the Warner Archive release of 'The Big Circus', colors fluctuate from vibrant to soft but is not enough to distract from the films power. It is definitely better than the showing on 'Turner Classic Movies' so if you are a fan of the film like I am, you ...

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